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Russia's War

A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945

By Richard Overy

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| Paperback | 9780140271690

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Fifty years after the end of World War II, historians now are coming to the consensus that Russia played the decisive role in the defeat of Hitler. At least 25 million Soviet soldiers and civilians perished at home and on the battlefield in the bloodiest struggle of our century. Using material avaContinue

Fifty years after the end of World War II, historians now are coming to the consensus that Russia played the decisive role in the defeat of Hitler. At least 25 million Soviet soldiers and civilians perished at home and on the battlefield in the bloodiest struggle of our century. Using material available only since the end of the Cold War, the author writes: "The conflict was fought on such a gigantic scale and with such an intensity of feeling that conventional historical discourse seems ill-equipped to convey either very satisfactorily. Little, perhaps nothing, of the experience of most Western readers and historians will have prepared them for what they will find in the history of Russia's war."

"A penetrating and compassionate book." (New York Times Book Review)

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  • Dun-Coloured Dust

    At the heart of Vasily Grossman’s great novel of the Second World War, Life and Fate, is an unforgettable depiction of a house cut off from the frontline in Stalingrad. A group of soldiers and civilians are stranded in no man’s land, linked to their ... (read full critics)

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 432 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0140271694
  • ISBN-13: 9780140271690
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Pub date: Aug 01, 1998
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and eBook
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